Trade & Business

Experience, choice, service

Port Metro Vancouver offers Canadian, North American and global business experience, service and choice. This dynamic gateway is an efficient, effective and integrated supply chain that connects you to one of the largest free trade zones in the world.

This gateway creates opportunities for the strategic movement of goods with:

Excellent infrastructure and terminals.

Expansion projects and development plans.

Seamless, reliable and secure transit of your goods.

Established trust and cooperation with Canadian and U.S. officials, partner agencies, and commercial stakeholders.

Diverse services and facilities to serve shippers in the bulk, container, automotive and breakbulk cargo sectors.

As trade through the Port increases, we continue to expand the ways of using existing infrastructure and technology as well as actively promote transportation alternatives such as off-docks and inland terminals. Our goal is to develop the most reliable and consistent supply chain in North America.

If you are interested in trade opportunities available at Port Metro Vancouver, please contact Port Metro Vancouver’s Trade Development team.

Trade & Business

Canada's Trade Commissioner Service can help you export your goods. Trade officers are located in 12 cities across Canada and in more than 140 cities worldwide. Officers can help you assess your export potential, identify key foreign contacts, find new markets abroad, implement your export strategy and obtain relevant advice and intelligence.

You can contact an International Port Metro Vancouver Representative or the Canadian Trade Office in your region. See Shipping to learn more. You can also refer to the Canada Border Services Agency website.

Please contact the terminal operator where your goods have arrived. Find out from your shipper which carrier (shipping line) your goods have arrived on. You should also check the berth window schedule to see which terminal your shipping line or you can find the telephone number below for the applicable terminal operator.

Need more assistance? Consider hiring a freight forwarder. Freight forwarders are similar to travel agents for cargo. A freight forwarder is a party who ensures that goods move from point of origin to point of destination to arrive at the right place, at the right time, in good order and condition, at the most economic cost